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OpenOffice.org, the open source office suite originally derived from Sun's corresponding StarOffice product, is out with the first public beta of version 3.0.
While the new features are not revolutionary, this is a solid release that's plenty good enough for many users to adapt as their primary office suite. There is definitely good news for Mac users.
Despite the occasional brush with critics in the open source community, Sun continues to maintain that it will ship all of its software assets as open source (though in some cases the timeframes are not clear).
One of the prominent areas where the company is following through on this at the moment is with its storage offerings.
A recent interview with Sun's Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green (published yesterday in eWeek) makes for fascinating reading, especially in conjunction with the dustup over Sun's announcement that some MySQL enhancements will not be open-sourced.
Understanding how Sun views open source goes a long way toward explaining what's going on, and telegraphing its future strategy.
Sun continues to support open source by putting its money where its mouth is, in ways both large and small. You may have missed it in all the clamor about their $1 billion purchase of MySQL, but this past week Sun also made some moves to lend support to the Python-on-Java project Jython.
How so? They did this by hiring ex-Chander developer Ted Leung and Jython maintainer Frank Wierzbicki to work full-time on dynamic languages at Sun.
